#94. Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
April 3, 2021
– Director: Mike Figgis
– Stacker score: 85.8
– Metascore: 82
– IMDb user rating: 7.5
– Runtime: 111 minutes
An alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter, played by Nicolas Cage, arrives in Las Vegas after losing everything. He meets a prostitute once there, but tells her if they spend time together she can’t try to interfere with his plan to drink himself to death. Based on a semi-autobiographical novel of the same name, author John O’Brien died by suicide shortly after the film went into production.